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Life In Japan: Maid Cafés And You (Part 1)

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Japan has a lot of unique stuff within its borders, mostly because of how unique its culture and its people are, although that may well be a chicken-egg question best left unanswered. One such cultural oddity is the globally infamous Maid Café but, as popular as they are, and believe me they are, it can […]
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Gallery: Comiket Cosplay 2015

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Comiket or Comic Market is the bi-annual manga festival that took Japan by storm. Since it’s origins in 1975, the show has become one of the largest gatherings, drawing in nearly half a million people per event and a lot of the audience comes in elaborate cosplay. The August show which is currently under way […]
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Life In Japan: What A Wonderful World

Andy Kavanagh
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Having arrived in Japan fresh from Dublin, Ireland – a city that exists in a seasonal vacuum perpetually stuck between spring and winter – my time here has taught me a lot more about the country than I expected to learn. Japan, for example, takes the four seasons very seriously, possibly because of how typical […]
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Life In Japan: Gudetama

Andy Kavanagh
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I’m gonna go ahead and assume that you are familiar with Hello Kitty. Arguably one of the first true Japanese pop culture icons, Hello Kitty is famous all over the world and stands as a steadfast symbol of Japan’s kawaii-culture, despite the relatively unknown fact that Kitty is actually Taiwanese. That’s not true, but you […]
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Review: Love Live! The School Idol Movie

Andy Kavanagh
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If you’re the type of person who pays attention to anime news, and if you’re reading this you probably are, you might be aware that several of the industry’s biggest names are unhappy with its current state. Schrodinger’s retiree Hayao Miyazaki has said that the industry is in decline and more recently Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno went […]
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Music Monday: Asian Powerhouses

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It’s certainly been a long time since I’ve written one of these columns and the amount of music that I want to show off and talk about is reaching critical mass. I’ve always liked doing these columns with a theme, rather than a disaparate collection of tracks I just happen to like that week. One […]
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Life in Japan: Sleep Is For The Weak

Andy Kavanagh
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It feels childish to say that Tokyo is a different place by night. Cities, by their very nature, are constantly in flux; changing and bending to the whims and will of the people within them, and the change that befalls every city in the world as daylight dies is universally understood. That said, there’s something […]
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Live-Action Death Note Cast Unveiled

Declan Doody
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We’ve gotten the first look at the cast for the upcoming Death Note live-action series in their costumes! This is a brand new series, with a new cast of actors and storyline that will go in an entirely different direction than the previous anime show, spin-offs, musical and the movies. The image below sees Kento Yamazaki […]
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